Wilton High School Team Wins Academic WorldQuest 2011

 

Academic WorldQuest is a national high school quiz competition created by the World Affairs Councils of America (WACA), an affiliation of 90 councils around the country dedicated to educating people, especially students, about international affairs. The World Affairs Forum hosts its regional competition at UCONN/ Stamford annually.  Our winning team this year - WILTON HIGH SCHOOL - will travel to Washington, DC - expenses paid -  to compete with the other regional winners at the national Academic WorldQuest on April 30, 2011.   This is the second year in a row that Wilton High School has been the winner of our local competition.  Congratulations!

Because of predicted inclement weather on the scheduled day of the competition, February 5th, the quiz was administered in each participating school by that school's advisor the following week.  Answer sheets were submitted to the Forum and the scoring completed on February 11th.  We thank these advisors and the teams for "going the extra mile" to be a part of this year's competition.

This year questions focused on the following topics:  World Religions, Energy, Freedom of the Press, Current Events, Millenium Goals - Gender Equality, Global Health, Global Governance and Europe.

Fourteen teams from ten high schools from Fairfield and Westchester Counties competed in this year's event.  Trumbull High School took second place and Bronxville High School took third place - as they did in last year's competition!

 MasterCard Worldwide and World Wrestling Entertainment were the lead sponsors, while the Xerox Foundation and The Hageman Foundation also generously sponsored this student event.

 

Sporting Gold Medals are the first place winners from Wilton High School,
Will Jankowski, Simon Brewer, Ben Marchi and Austin Schaeffer, with Advisor Terry Ragazzini

 

 

The Second Place Team from Trumbull High School

Katie Boland (Advisor), Brandon Capece (Alternate), Michael McGuigan, Miles DeAngelis, Emily Brock, Alex Mark

 

                                                                                                                                

The Third Place Team from Bronxville High School

 Steve Klurfeld (Advisor) Patrick Tine, John Timoney, Ryan Taras, Jack Begert